Internal Audit Report Writing Skills Course
Corporate Finance, Banking and Auditing
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Internal Audit Report Writing Skills Course
Course Overview:
The Internal Audit Report Writing Skills Training Course enhances the participants’ skills in presentation techniques particularly structuring and presenting an audit report. Participants will learn to overcome barriers to written communication, address various audiences and structure their ideas effectively.
This module deals with writing, revising, and polishing reports, aiming at being purposeful, direct, and quality controlled.
It also integrates the need to undertake an analysis of the audience and how to present the results to capture the interest of the stakeholders. Suitable for both internal and IT auditors, the course prepares the participants to be able to write comprehensive audit reports.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this Internal Audit Report Writing Skills Training Course, learners will be able to do:
- Distinguish barriers to effective written communication and how to overcome them
- Structure of the audit report for impact
- Present audit findings in a clear and concise manner
- Identify the target audience and adapt their writing accordingly
- Produce an organized and structured audit report draft
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for all internal and IT auditors who are required to produce and edit audit reports.
Course Outlines:
Introduction to Report Writing
- Value of the audit report
- Measuring return
- Ensuring a “need” fit
- Maintaining quality control
- Elements of written communication
- Barriers to written communication
- Constructs of written communication
- Clear writing techniques
- The writing acts
- Preparing to write
- Writing the first draft
The Audit Report Findings and Structure
- Audit findings and their presentation
- Structuring an audit report
- Areas to cover
- Determine the audience
- Likely findings
- Technical appendices
- Summarizing working papers into the reportable narrative
- Use of planning worksheets
- Differing types of reports
Drafting the Audit Report
- Analyzing the prospective audience
- Who the audience is
- Number of readers
- Organizational status
- Knowledge background
- Attitude to audit
- Personal agendas
- Hot topics
- Key stakeholders
- Writing the draft
- Scheduling time
- Writing as you go
- Structuring your thoughts
- Draft quickly and polish later
- Use of clear writing techniques
- Checking for substance and strategy
- Capturing and maintaining the reader’s attention
- Evaluation of the draft
Editing the Audit Report
- Editing the report
- Bottleneck
- Causes of Auditor Frustration
- The "Kilroy was here" syndrome
- Editing for substance, readability, correctness, and style
- Editing others’ work
- Applying appropriate levels of editing
- To change or not to change?
- Build the writer's pride of authorship
- Building a desire to write well
The final Audit Report
- Production of the final version
- Polishing the report
- Deciding distribution
- Management responses
- Audit replies
- Selling the report
- Writing the summary
- Supporting evidence
- Conducting report presentations
- Responding to questions
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